Saint Catherine Foundation





	The foundation supports conservation work at Saint Catherine’s Monastery, Mount Sinai, Egypt. South Wing Project – Library Expansion and Reconfiguration Library Conservation Project Manuscript Boxing Programme Life and Fire Safety Project The East Wing Cells Cell 31a Kitchen Transfer Water Pumping Station	South Wing Project – Library Expansion and Reconfiguration The monastery’s library is situated on the second floor of the South Wing, the monastery’s central services building, constructed in the 1930s–50s. The old library will be stripped out and reconfigured to accommodate individual stainless steel boxes for the storage of some 2,000 of the books and MSS. A conservation workshop, digitisation studio and library for modern books will be created. The contract for the building work will be awarded at the end of October 2009, with mobilization scheduled for November. Concept Design PORPHYRIOS ASSOCIATES, London Electrical and Mechanical Design ACE, Arab Consulting Engineers


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